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Red River Settlement: Its rise, progress and present state: With some account of the native races and its general history to the present day

by: Ross, Alexander, 1783-1856. (author)

Publication date: 1856

Topics: Red River Settlement, Advertising, Publicité, Frontier and pioneer life, Vie des pionniers, Indians of North America, Indiens d'Amérique--Amérique du Nord, Red River Settlement--History, Red River Valley (Man.)--Description and travel, 1856

Publisher: Smith, Elder & Co. (London)

Collection: peel_print; peel; university_of_alberta_libraries; toronto

Language: English

Item Size: 93.9M

Ross, Alexander: 1783-1856. Born in Scotland; to Canada, 1805; entered service of Pacific Fur Company, 1810, then North West Company, 1813; retired to Red River district, 1825; member of Council of Assiniboia; author (Wallace, Dictionary of Canadian biography). // A vivid word-picture of life in the colony. Includes publisher's catalogue. Also published, new edition with extract from Robert Michael Ballantyne's The young fur-traders , London: Nelson, 1905; with new introduction by Jay Edgerton in edition of 1,500 copies, Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, 1957 (xvi, 416p.); with new introduction by William Lewis Morton, Edmonton: Hurtig and Rutland, Vt.: C.E. Tuttle, 1972 (xxviii, 416p.). Included in Red River settlement , compiled by Helen Doherty, [Winnipeg: H. Doherty, 1984] (xx, 505p.). See also Peel 148.